linux-kernel - [PATCH 4.9 05/30] mips: Fix non-POSIX regexp

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Message-Id: <20210813150522.615538452@linuxfoundation.org>
Date:   Fri, 13 Aug 2021 17:06:33 +0200
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        stable@...r.kernel.org, "H. Nikolaus Schaller" <hns@...delico.com>,
        Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>,
        Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 4.9 05/30] mips: Fix non-POSIX regexp

From: H. Nikolaus Schaller <hns@...delico.com>

[ Upstream commit 28bbbb9875a35975904e46f9b06fa689d051b290 ]

When cross compiling a MIPS kernel on a BSD based HOSTCC leads
to errors like

  SYNC    include/config/auto.conf.cmd - due to: .config
egrep: empty (sub)expression
  UPD     include/config/kernel.release
  HOSTCC  scripts/dtc/dtc.o - due to target missing

It turns out that egrep uses this egrep pattern:

		(|MINOR_|PATCHLEVEL_)

This is not valid syntax or gives undefined results according
to POSIX 9.5.3 ERE Grammar

	https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/V1_chap09.html

It seems to be silently accepted by the Linux egrep implementation
while a BSD host complains.

Such patterns can be replaced by a transformation like

	"(|p1|p2)" -> "(p1|p2)?"

Fixes: 48c35b2d245f ("[MIPS] There is no __GNUC_MAJOR__")
Signed-off-by: H. Nikolaus Schaller <hns@...delico.com>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
---
 arch/mips/Makefile | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/mips/Makefile b/arch/mips/Makefile
index 25f3bfef9b39..af4eff7d22ec 100644
--- a/arch/mips/Makefile
+++ b/arch/mips/Makefile
@@ -286,7 +286,7 @@ LDFLAGS			+= -m $(ld-emul)
 
 ifdef CONFIG_MIPS
 CHECKFLAGS += $(shell $(CC) $(KBUILD_CFLAGS) -dM -E -x c /dev/null | \
-	egrep -vw '__GNUC_(|MINOR_|PATCHLEVEL_)_' | \
+	egrep -vw '__GNUC_(MINOR_|PATCHLEVEL_)?_' | \
 	sed -e "s/^\#define /-D'/" -e "s/ /'='/" -e "s/$$/'/" -e 's/\$$/&&/g')
 ifdef CONFIG_64BIT
 CHECKFLAGS		+= -m64
-- 
2.30.2